Civil Rights and Voting Rights

Question 1

Which occurred after James Meredith won the right to legally attend the University of Mississippi?

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The governor and university officials blocked him from enrolling.

Question 2

The main goal of the Freedom Summer campaign was

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registering African Americans to vote.

Question 3

During the Children’s Crusade in Birmingham in May of 1963,

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the police used fire hoses on protesters.

Question 4

Why did Governor Wallace resist enrolling African Americans in the University of Alabama?

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He thought integration was a states’ rights issue.

Question 5

A civil rights activist who was shot and killed because of his efforts to register African American voters was

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Medgar Evers.

Question 6

Which was the result of a bomb that exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham?

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Four young girls were killed.

Question 7

Which word best describes the response of the public to the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963?

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outrage

Question 8

Which best describes the response of authorities in Birmingham, Alabama, to civil rights protests in the 1960s?

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They sometimes used violence to resist the protests.

Question 9

The Universities of Alabama and Mississippi were able to integrate because

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the federal government became involved.

Question 10

What did Martin Luther King Jr. do as a call for action in Birmingham in 1963?

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He wrote a letter describing the violence African Americans faced.

Civil Rights and Voting Rights Answers